Chief Joseph

B. Transcriptions

B3. Chief Joseph. Excerpt from “An Indian’s View of Indian Affairs.” In Northwest Passages: A Literary Anthology of the Pacific Northwest from Coyote Tale to Roadside Attractions edited by Bruce Barcott, 7-10. Seattle, Washington: Sasquatch Books, 1994. Originally published in North American Review. (April 1879).

Description: Fictionalized telling of the Nez Perce’s exile into Idaho and the following battle, the Battle of the Big Hole, the bloodiest battle of the Nez Perce War.

Reviews: “Lay the Mountains Low. Review of Lay the Mountains Low: The Flight of the Nez Perce from Idaho and the Battle of the Big Hole, August 9-10, 1877, by Terry C. Johnston. Publishers Weekly, May 29, 2000. https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-312-26189-4.

Description: Fictionalized telling of the Nez Perce War from the perspective of General O. O. Howard with flashbacks to the Civil War. Includes supporting characters of historical significance: Sound of Running Feet (Chief Joseph’s daughter), Springtime and Good Woman (Chief Joseph’s wives), Colonel David Perry (of the war’s first battle), War-Chief Looking Glass, and C.E.S. Wood.

H4. Cullick, Jonathan S. “Biography and the Poet: Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce.” In Making History: The Biographical Narratives of Robert Penn Warren, by Jonathan S. Cullick, 155-84. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000.

H11. Ruppersburg, Hugh. “Chapter 4 Recovering the Past: Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce. In Robert Penn Warren and the American Imagination, by Hugh Ruppersburg, 112-28. Athens, Georgia: The University of Georgia Press, 1990.

Text Contents: ‘Part I. The Explorer: I Do Not Wish to Loaf about Sitka,’ ‘Part II. The Soldier’s Diary: Facing the Probabilities by Writing,’ ‘Part III. The Advocate: His Drawings, Poems, and Prose,’ ‘Part IV. The Writer: A Legacy of Family Friendship, and Justice’

Description: Literary criticism of the works of C.E.S. Wood through biography. Includes several poems and diary excerpts, previously unpublished. Though these poems were technically unpublished until 2006, they are not included in the literary section of this bibliography because they were included for the purpose of critique in a nonfiction work.